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BUREAUCRAT: Someone who works in a bureaucracy. Usually the term bureaucrat is used as a deregulatory, even profane, description of a government employee (such as "that dirty faceless bureaucrat"), indicating that the person would need serious genetic restructuring to be included in the human race. Closer genetic inspection (and the theory of public choice), however, indicates that the real culprit is complex bureaucracies and the rules under which they operate.
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ADVERSE SELECTION An inefficient, bad, or adverse outcome of a market exchange that results because buyers and/or sellers make decisions based on asymmetric information. This commonly results in a market that exchanges a lesser quality good, what is termed the market for lemons. Two related problems resulting from asymmetric information are moral hazard and the principal-agent problem. Two methods of lessoning the problem of adverse selection are signalling and screening.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time browsing about a thrift store looking to buy either a how-to book on fixing your computer, with illustrations or several magazines on computer software. Be on the lookout for slightly overweight pizza delivery guys.
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A U.S. dime has 118 groves around its edge, one fewer than a U.S. quarter.
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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." -- Will Rogers
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